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or 7 different apps at this time and so, this simple idea which would be an indispensable tool for us to compete against all of these other services, and tell the public that there is just one place and you can go and you can have access to the whole fleet and that idea is gone as of today or last week when it was discarded and this is a tremendous disservice to the industry, to the drivers, to this agency, to the city, and it really needs to be reviewed and you know, rethought. because, without a tool like this to compete, we are at their mersy, thank you. >> thank you. >> robert winer, jewel, osterberg and mary mcchoir. >> the stake holder, one thing that concerns me is the possibility that muni bus service will be on a saturday schedule during the summer. you have to keep in mind that the tourists are coming into san francisco and the people have to simply get to work. and now, with the gross inconvenience when it was tried twice before, and you also that there is a new development now, the shuttle vans have sprung up and because muni service is so atrocious, and you want to create
or 7 different apps at this time and so, this simple idea which would be an indispensable tool for us to compete against all of these other services, and tell the public that there is just one place and you can go and you can have access to the whole fleet and that idea is gone as of today or last week when it was discarded and this is a tremendous disservice to the industry, to the drivers, to this agency, to the city, and it really needs to be reviewed and you know, rethought. because,...
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i used to be boxed into small repertoire. i kept constantly looking for new repertoire and commissioning new arrangements. if you look at the first of the program you have very early, young vibrant mendelson; fabulous opener and then you have this fabulous concerto written for us in the orchestra. is our gift. msk(music) >> and then you have strauss, extraordinary piece. the most challenging of all. string orchestra work. 23 solo instrument, no violin section, now viola section; everybody is responsible for their part in this piece. the challenge is something that i felt not only that we could do , absolutely could do, but i wanted to show off. i can't tell you how aware i am of the audience. not only what i hear but their vibes, so strong. i have been doing this for a long time. i kind of make them feel what i want them to feel. there is nobody in that audience or anywhere that is not going to know that particular song by the fourth note. and that is our encore on tour. by the way. i am proud to play it, we are from san fran
i used to be boxed into small repertoire. i kept constantly looking for new repertoire and commissioning new arrangements. if you look at the first of the program you have very early, young vibrant mendelson; fabulous opener and then you have this fabulous concerto written for us in the orchestra. is our gift. msk(music) >> and then you have strauss, extraordinary piece. the most challenging of all. string orchestra work. 23 solo instrument, no violin section, now viola section; everybody...
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want to use it for my notes here. i wanted to point out to you that the affordable housing community, if you will, the choo choo representatives has a range of perspectives. we're thinking about this as affordable housing developers. so, we have that particular perspective. but also we're involved in community development work, if you will, community kind of empowerment and involvement. so, we understand the community perspective on environmental review and the entitlements process as well. so, our approach is from those two lenses or two angles and it's important that we not just think about this through the septments process from a developer standpoint. it seems to us that the very low hanging fruit is now uncontested, that there needs to be some time frame to file an appeal, 30 days seems to be what everybody now agrees to. so, that was the primary need and that seems to be solved. we had also opined that changing to a more modern system of notification may be fine electronically. this was discussed ad nauseam unde
want to use it for my notes here. i wanted to point out to you that the affordable housing community, if you will, the choo choo representatives has a range of perspectives. we're thinking about this as affordable housing developers. so, we have that particular perspective. but also we're involved in community development work, if you will, community kind of empowerment and involvement. so, we understand the community perspective on environmental review and the entitlements process as well. so,...
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it took us about 2-1/2 years to get through the full approval process. we went through mediation, the planning commission, and the board of appeals. and that was the first year and a half. once we did all of that and we were approved at the board of appeals, our opposition triggered ceqa at that point in time. we didn't expect that that was going to happen. we knew it was the remote possibility, but they did in fact trigger it, it was consecutive and it followed after all the other appeal processes that occurred. ceqa was by far the longest most unpredictable, most stressful and most costly part of the process for us. and i don't know whether the reforms being considered today will [speaker not understood] addressing situations like that confronted by our family, but it might be a good start. anything that would compress the ceqa process, make it more transparent and allow people like us embarking on remodel have a better sense of what we're going to be up against from the very outset would be a lot better. we might have been able to decide earlier what
it took us about 2-1/2 years to get through the full approval process. we went through mediation, the planning commission, and the board of appeals. and that was the first year and a half. once we did all of that and we were approved at the board of appeals, our opposition triggered ceqa at that point in time. we didn't expect that that was going to happen. we knew it was the remote possibility, but they did in fact trigger it, it was consecutive and it followed after all the other appeal...
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you all shafted us before. and what happened, we had to get a lawyer. we shouldn't have to get a lawyer because of ceqa. we should thev
you all shafted us before. and what happened, we had to get a lawyer. we shouldn't have to get a lawyer because of ceqa. we should thev
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finally, we are to use everything in your power and wisdom to disapprove this unprofitable proposition. the lbe organizations will applaud and remember your actions. >> afternoon mr. wong. >> howard wong, savingmuni.com. half of my career has been overseeing large city projects; i am aware of the problems that projects can fortell at any point in the project. with the award of the tutor perini contract, the project report dated may 16, 2013, will drop the central subway contingency to 65 million dollars, or approximately 4% of the project cost. when the federal requirement at this point according to the fta is 10%, or 160 million. but - savemuni.com analysis indicates that perhaps this is even worse than it seems based on records that we have obtained the contingency might be closer to 3%. given the fact that major construction of tunneling and station deep excavation has not started at this point of the project is prudent to have large contingencies for project with high risk as the fta acknowledges. in 2009, the fta recommended a contingency of 20%, 330 million dollars. the report th
finally, we are to use everything in your power and wisdom to disapprove this unprofitable proposition. the lbe organizations will applaud and remember your actions. >> afternoon mr. wong. >> howard wong, savingmuni.com. half of my career has been overseeing large city projects; i am aware of the problems that projects can fortell at any point in the project. with the award of the tutor perini contract, the project report dated may 16, 2013, will drop the central subway contingency...
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it is unbelievable to us that this body is poised to award a contract of that size , that magnitude one of the largest ever in the city with virtually no local participation in the local minority business participation , we also think there are serious legal questions about whether or not this contractor working go forward. mr. chan just gave you his story; others that we have heard since we sent in our letter objecting to this concert the word racist serious questions about the good faith and fair dealing that this . rant contractor has been involved with we are not asking for local preferences. we are asking that this received the scrutiny that this deserves, but it gets sent back to muni's dbe contract compliance officer to interview folks like mr. chan and other businesses that were rejected. >> next speaker please. >> deraline davis [sounds like] >> i am also on the cbe coalition of business equity. i am appalled to with this but is done as it relates to small businesses. it is unacceptable. i have been in the central subway project and then kicked off that project for no appar
it is unbelievable to us that this body is poised to award a contract of that size , that magnitude one of the largest ever in the city with virtually no local participation in the local minority business participation , we also think there are serious legal questions about whether or not this contractor working go forward. mr. chan just gave you his story; others that we have heard since we sent in our letter objecting to this concert the word racist serious questions about the good faith and...
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a way to satisfy the sbe requirements him or somewhere else so they don't need us more. six months of work went down the drain; years of contact with the prime contractor went down the drain. this project is huge, 840 million dollars. i urge not to move forward for the following reasons. it sets a dangerous precedent to ignore chapter 14 lbe ordinance which many supervisors have supported. all other supervisors support it. two, it ignores the impact of the local economy that could be generated from participation in this. can i submit this? >> of course. we would be happy to see it. next speaker. >> good afternoon. >> good afternoon oren feldstrom -- the coalition is an umbrella group composed of numerous minority owned trade associations here in seven cisco such as the african american chamber of commerce, the asian-american contractors association and others. we have been working with many years to increase opportunities for smaller, local, minority owned firms the cities 14 lte program and the federal dbe program. local businesses and especially minority businesses are
a way to satisfy the sbe requirements him or somewhere else so they don't need us more. six months of work went down the drain; years of contact with the prime contractor went down the drain. this project is huge, 840 million dollars. i urge not to move forward for the following reasons. it sets a dangerous precedent to ignore chapter 14 lbe ordinance which many supervisors have supported. all other supervisors support it. two, it ignores the impact of the local economy that could be generated...
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many of us didn't know they existed. why are you not using contingency funds? there are a lot of funds in that and we want one more community meeting. a fire alarm went off and can you tell us short before. we'd like answers to many questions. thank you. >> thank you. >> lance carnes followed by mark bruno. those are the last two people who have submitted a speaker card. >> good afternoon. >>> hi, good afternoon. my name is lance carnes, i'm a resident of north beach. i guess i wanted to make a pointed to about taking care of our neighborhoods. you know, we're certainly going to be in a situation of putting up with a lot of construction without any real benefit to the neighborhood, a station or service. i'd like to start off and echo what the previous speaker said and that is we had a meeting in january 22nd which was unfortunately terminated before a lot of people traveled some distance in fact, to get there, were able to ask questions or get answers. and i'd like you to reschedule that as soon as possible. it's nice to come down here and visit you folks at ci
many of us didn't know they existed. why are you not using contingency funds? there are a lot of funds in that and we want one more community meeting. a fire alarm went off and can you tell us short before. we'd like answers to many questions. thank you. >> thank you. >> lance carnes followed by mark bruno. those are the last two people who have submitted a speaker card. >> good afternoon. >>> hi, good afternoon. my name is lance carnes, i'm a resident of north beach....
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i would encourage you to check it out and give us your feedback. and in the spirit of the acknowledgment that you made, mr. chair, of acknowledging the great work of staff, i'm happy to start out my report with special recognition awards for a small number of those staff that we want to honor today. so, first i'd like to ask our cfo ms. bose to come forward with lauren [speaker not understood]. lauren is a principal administrative analyst on the sf park team. she's been a member of that team since november 2009. she has led the planning implementation of difficult and complex parking policy efforts including policies related to city and sfmta employee parking as well as various neighborhood parking management proposals, all of which have been very popular. her general responsibilities include acting as project manager for on street parking pricing policy and implementation which is really at the core of sf park. she is the coordinator for the neighborhood parking management proposals, including all the technical work and outreach. and let me just s
i would encourage you to check it out and give us your feedback. and in the spirit of the acknowledgment that you made, mr. chair, of acknowledging the great work of staff, i'm happy to start out my report with special recognition awards for a small number of those staff that we want to honor today. so, first i'd like to ask our cfo ms. bose to come forward with lauren [speaker not understood]. lauren is a principal administrative analyst on the sf park team. she's been a member of that team...
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it cost us mortgage. in total over this process, we spent more than $100,000 on the six appeals, though not one of them went the wrong way. all of these appeals were very easily decided, and yet the bureaucratic process and the overlapping jurisdictions and the sheer amount of expertise it takes just to understand the legislation cost us far more than a public school teacher's salary for the year. thank you. >> thank you. mr. ball, that was the bernal heights appeal i referred to. >>> i should mention its was the appeal. it's just off mission street both of you are referring to. >> with the rotted out walls? >>> that's right. >> thank you. next speaker. >>> hi, my name is paul page. i submitted something to each of you. it's an e-mail. it's an e-mail of a project that happened on 5 37 natoma street in supervisor kim's district. and it was a discussion between myself, ben fu, and to a lesser extent john ram. what i wanted to highlight is that there are already timelines and deadlines on appeals to planning
it cost us mortgage. in total over this process, we spent more than $100,000 on the six appeals, though not one of them went the wrong way. all of these appeals were very easily decided, and yet the bureaucratic process and the overlapping jurisdictions and the sheer amount of expertise it takes just to understand the legislation cost us far more than a public school teacher's salary for the year. thank you. >> thank you. mr. ball, that was the bernal heights appeal i referred to....
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thank you again for hosting us. >> thank you for including us in "culturewire." ♪ >> director brinkman? >> present. >> principle. director heinicke? director heinicke is anticipated. director lee? >> present. >> lee present. director ramos? >> [speaker not understood]. >> ramos present. [speaker not understood]? mr. chairman, directors, you have a quorum. item 3, [speaker not understood] producing devices please be advised that the ringing of nuisance cell phones, pagers, any electronic devices are prohibited at the meeting. any person responsible for one going off in the room may be asked to leave the meeting. any person -- any cell phone that is set on vibrate does cause microphone interference so the board respectfully requests that they be turned off. >> thank you. >> item 4, approval of the minutes of the january 15th, 2013 regular meeting and the january 29th 2013 special meeting. >> thank you. is there a motion to approve the minutes? >> motion to a preform. >> second. >> any discussion on it? erctiontion all in favor say aye? >> aye. >> so ordered. okay, thank you. >> item 5, c
thank you again for hosting us. >> thank you for including us in "culturewire." ♪ >> director brinkman? >> present. >> principle. director heinicke? director heinicke is anticipated. director lee? >> present. >> lee present. director ramos? >> [speaker not understood]. >> ramos present. [speaker not understood]? mr. chairman, directors, you have a quorum. item 3, [speaker not understood] producing devices please be advised that the...
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the best thing they can do for us is to pave the streets, clean the sidewalks, give us a hand to beautify more of north beach, not dig it up like rats. i don't like subways. i like the fresh air, the sun, the stars, the beau pi of san francisco. * beauty that's all i need to say. >> thank you very much. the public hearing is closed at this point. members of the board, i have several items i would like to raise here at this point. and i think the first would be the overall thing has been said and i agree with this completely. i'd love to see us go to north beach and fisherman's wharf and the pledge efforts to begin to look at that. there are obviously questions of financing and all of that. but it is certainly worth weill to go. i'm not sure about the suggestion to sauselido. that may be beyond our means at this point. the other two would be a wonderful way to connect the entire city. and i'll also talk a little about the timeline. i think i agree with the notion of changing the resolution to bring it back to the board before the director of transportation makes the final die significance.
the best thing they can do for us is to pave the streets, clean the sidewalks, give us a hand to beautify more of north beach, not dig it up like rats. i don't like subways. i like the fresh air, the sun, the stars, the beau pi of san francisco. * beauty that's all i need to say. >> thank you very much. the public hearing is closed at this point. members of the board, i have several items i would like to raise here at this point. and i think the first would be the overall thing has been...
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so, please watch us, calm us, support us, but don't do excavation in north beach. thank you very much. >> thank you, ma'am. next speaker, please. >> mary helen lowly, don [speaker not understood], barry toronto. >> good afternoon. >>> good afternoon, i'm [speaker not understood]. i'm a resident of north beach. and i want to say a quick thing about comparing this to downtown to north beach to the disruption. as you know i'm sure, north beach has lots of restaurants with outdoor seating. the mess and the noise would [speaker not understood] anybody outside. i hope you're getting it. there is a lot of fear what the first option would do to the neighborhood, to small business owners there. they will not recover if they're having a difficult time already. and also i know you're hearing a lot of different ideas, opinions and i guess that's democracy, messy, but that's the way it is. but i think the one thing that is consistent and unanimous to north beach is that nobody wants that first option, the excavation on columbus and union. or i think if that's the one you end up
so, please watch us, calm us, support us, but don't do excavation in north beach. thank you very much. >> thank you, ma'am. next speaker, please. >> mary helen lowly, don [speaker not understood], barry toronto. >> good afternoon. >>> good afternoon, i'm [speaker not understood]. i'm a resident of north beach. and i want to say a quick thing about comparing this to downtown to north beach to the disruption. as you know i'm sure, north beach has lots of restaurants...